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The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports:
A group of prominent Jewish and Black Pittsburgh leaders on Thursday condemned Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano for his ties to the right-wing social media platform Gab.
WESA revealed recently that the Mastriano campaign paid $5,000 to Gab for consultation services. The Huffington Post then reported that new accounts on Gab automatically follow Mastriano’s account.
Officials said that Mastriano has posted on Gab dozens of times, and that many of the hundreds of replies on the site were filled with antisemtism and bigotry, some specifically directed at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish.
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State Rep Dan Frankel said Josh Shapiro supports his effort to expand PA’s hate crime laws. Frankel said it’s important to call out platforms that encourage bigotry, since white supremacists are “depending on our silence … We cannot allow that to happen” https://t.co/SdtcGa6v7n
— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) July 21, 2022
Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano liked a tweet saying that marriage is “a covenant before the Lord between one man and one woman.” H/t @emdashEthan pic.twitter.com/KRDSyBjSKM
— Stephen Caruso (@StephenJ_Caruso) July 21, 2022
Doug Mastriano is under fire for his ties to Gab founder Andrew Torba, so Torba responded with a vigorous defense of Christian nationalism: “This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country.” https://t.co/EYDGDpWuix pic.twitter.com/3eEewknR2F
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 18, 2022
Andrew Torba made it a point to emphasize that there are no “hyphenated Christians” in the America First movement, which is presumably a rebuke aimed at those who use the phrase “Judeo-Christian.” https://t.co/c2QcBZAQTc https://t.co/uJI673oMM1
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 1, 2022
Gab founder Andrew Torba celebrates start of “Christian takeover of our Christian country” – and looks to election of Doug Mastriano as Pennsylvania governor as next step. pic.twitter.com/rLkUBOmkHw
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) June 24, 2022